Discussion Memes / GenshinImpact

I understand that Azar being a Hate Sink is very true. However, the meme entry seems to be just dedicated on describing his laundry list of crimes which makes him worthy of being a Hate Sink, rather than some meme out of it. I'll change it, but I'll keep the old part in here so it may find use in other parts that actually are dealing about Hate Sink. No worries, I've seen several contents about Azar to make the meme still stay in form...

And turns out, we have even more! Let's just archive them as well...

• Azar
  • Most Hated NPC ^{Explanation (Spoilers for Sumeru Archon Quest)} Grand Sage Azar easily tops the list of many players' "most hated Genshin Impact character so far" list, due to his many transgressions. He berates Nilou for trying to celebrate Kusanali's birthday, uses her as a host for the Sabzeruz-Samsara Lotus-Eater Machine, and shuts down the Dance of Sabzeruz out of nothing but his own petty hatred of the arts, while also forcing Nilou to relive that shutdown over and over again. He manipulated the Eremites by giving them false hopes (and a good distraction) in trying to reincarnate King Deshret, so as to both upstage Lesser Lord Kusanali - whom he called a fake God of Wisdom - and worsen race relations between the people of the Desert and the Rainforest. He also abandoned the insane scholars & Eremite mercenaries by exiling them into the desert to get them out of the Akademiya's hair, only to turn around and trick the cult of Ayn Al-Ahmar (Scarlet King) into getting them back so he could extract "Divine" Knowledge Capsules from them, and believes that Sumeru adults should never dream; dismissing them as frivolous and corrupting to his idea of 'wisdom'. Moreover, he exploited and abused the Akasha system; turning Sumeru into a surveillance state in the Sages' name, and a lot of Akademiya projects with his approval were causing the Withering to spread, making it that much harder for the people of Sumeru to deal with. To top it off, he's willing to commit blasphemous treason against the Dendro Archon by replacing Kusanali with the Prodigal Shouki No Kami (Scaramouche) as the new 'God of Wisdom' by conspiring with Il Dottore/Zandik, whom the Akademiya had exiled a long time ago. Along with the aforementioned treason, Azar was also planning on stabbing the Fatui in the back once Scaramouche became the new God of Wisdom. Not only is he a corrupt, emotionally abusive scumbag and a racist to boot, but he is also a blatant hypocrite, a heretic, and a completely untrustworthy backstabber who only cares about his own power. Finally, Azar's "sentence" of being exiled from Sumeru City by Nahida at the end of the questline could be considered a slap on the wrist for his many crimes, with many players wishing he'd gotten a much, much worse punishment.
• Little Que'er
  • Azar's predecessor ^{Explanation (spoilers!)} While fans declare Azar to be the most hated NPC introduced in Sumeru, he's actually preceded by Little Que'er, a minor NPC in Liyue. Despite being Sun Yu's companion, she's proven herself to be a huge Hate Sink and widely disliked by fans by virtue of her behavior — she's needlessly aggressive, rude, and hostile towards anyone who interacts with her, which includes the Traveler, and regularly issues death threats to the latter (this is despite being a regular human threatening someone who proves to be superior to her in combat). Furthermore, she proves to be an Ungrateful Bitch who doesn't even thank the Traveler for their efforts, and a Toxic Friend Influence towards Sun Yu; she tries to (unsuccessfully) convince him that the Traveler is a threat and attempts to talk him out of bringing the Guhua Clan back (who she felt that he's being held back), this is despite being part of (and raised by) said clan herself. As an icing on the cake, in the Lantern Rite festival in version 1.3, she is very insistent in wanting to squeeze Sun Yu's info about Zhiruo (a regular civilian, and Sun Yu's senior), this (coupled with her standard MO towards strangers) makes it clear that she is very willing to harm (or even kill) someone who can't fight back, cementing her as an Ax-Crazy bitch. Thankfully, in version 3.3, Sun Yu decides to completely ditch her once he realizes how her behavior can get in the way of bringing the Guhua Clan back, and is left a sobbing wreck once he departs to Fontaine.
• Vacher:
  • Azar's rival ^{Explanation (Unmarked spoilers for Fontaine Archon Quest)} Vacher's many heinous crimes have made him just as hated, if not moreso, than Azar, who was already a major asshole. Vacher is a Serial Killer who, for 23 years, has been responsible for kidnapping and murdering countless women in his research to try and bring his lover Vigneire back from the dead after she was dissolved by the Primordial Sea. To fund this, he also ran the production of Sinthe, a narcotic substance made from diluted Primordial Seawater that destroyed countless lives. To keep this all going, he was also willing to get rid of anyone who got in his way, including Navia's father Callas, and willing to dissolve his own subordinates once they stopped being useful to him. Compared to Azar, Vacher may have been doing damage on a smaller scale overall (as Azar's crimes could've affected all of Teyvat), but he's considered by many to be far more deplorable, disturbing, and much more down-to-earth. Vacher was also completely unrepentant about his crimes, blaming Fontainian society and never taking responsibility for his actions. The only thing that keeps Vacher from being a Complete Monster is that he truly loved Vigneire, but that love twisted him into a murderous psychopath and his destruction of so many lives removes any sympathy one might've had for him. Unlike Azar, however, Vacher got what he deserved when the amalgamation of his victims killed him at the end of Chapter IV Act II by taking his soul. Due to his villainy, players are quick to compare him to Azar as though the two were competing to be the bigger Hate Sink.

Would the meme about Charlotte being racist count as flame bait?

I know that anything about Eremites/Sumeru skin colours is importation of Twitter drama, but Charlotte has a passive that makes her heal other Fontainians more. Fontaine is not involved in any Twitter drama regarding racism, so I think it should be fine ?

with reguards to the lore meme about the archons

Venti: I solved the problem for my people.

Zhongli: I let my people handle their own problem.

Nahida: My people are the problem.

Raiden: I am the problem.

Would this essentially fit for the Fontaine stuff. Or something like it?

Focalors: I solved the problem in secret.

This page is triggering the too-long warning, and the only other memes page for a single work I know of that has subpages is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Could someone see if there are any violations of the warning at the start of the page, and if it still triggers the warning, split something off - maybe the Playable Characters section?

Okay, can we like, put a big fat (uncommented) notice at the top of the page saying that saying that Content Leaks of currently unreleased information are absolutely not allowed? I put a comment notice at the top of the page for a good reason as editors should reeeeeeaaallllyyy know better than to post leaks of stuff that Hoyoverse did not want us to know of yet. However, a certain someone thought it was a good idea to make jokes about Dehya's gameplay kit (even straight-up saying it's from leaks) when we have not gotten any official word from Hoyo yet (and they previously leaked information about the two then-unreleased Eremite enemies on another page beforehand). I even messaged them once that they should know better than to post Content Leaks.

Should Inazuma character entries use their in-game name or should they go by their first names only like in the character tab for simplicity? There could be a potential edit war since I restored Kokomi and Sara's entry names after they were shortened, and realized new and existing names would also suffer from the confusion which leads to people going back and forth editing names.

Okay, the so-called “memes” surrounding the Anniversary Rewards is starting to reek of complaining rather than joking.

Can we remove them?